Removable display-lid.



P. A. BECKER.

REMOVABLE DISPLAY LID.

APPLIOATION FILED AUG. 1, 191a.

Patented Aug. 18, 1914,

PHILIP A. BECKER, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

REMOVABLE DISPLAY-LID.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Aug. 18, 1914.

Application filed August 1, 1913. Serial No. 782,498.

To all whom it may concern Be it'known that I, PII'IIJI A. Bne'unu, acitizen of the United States, and a resident of New York, borough ofln'ooklyn, county of Kings, and State of New York, have invented acertain new and useful Improvement in Removable Display-Lids, of whichthe following is a full, clear, and exact specification.

This invention relates to a class of lids, or devices adapted to be usedin conjunction with cigar boxes, or the like.

My invention has for its object primarily to provide a display liddesigned to be applied especially upon forms of cigar boxes having theside walls of the body thereof projecting some distance above the frontwall, and wherein is employed a frame provided with a filler adapted tobe seated upon the top edge of the front wall of the box between itsupwardly projecting side walls, whereby air, or dust may be preventedfrom damaging the contents by passing through the space between thefront wall and the display lid when positioned upon the open top of thebox.

Another object of the invention is to arrange the filler whereby it mayserve as a retainer for holding a transparent plate in the frame of thelid; and still another object of the invention is to provide a form offrame having a depending flange with a flared marginal edge forpermitting the frame to be freely guided over the top of the box as wellas closely fitting the walls of the box when closed thereupon.

A further object of the invention is to provide a plurality of prongswhich may be struck out of the depending flange and disposed inwardlythereof for supporting the transparent plate in the frame as occasionrequires.

WVith these and other objects in view, the invention will be hereinaftermore particularly described with reference to the accompanying drawingwhich forms a part of this specification, and will then be pointed outin the claims at the end of the description.

In the drawing, Figure 1 is a perspective view, partly broken away, ofone form of display lid embodying my invention as applied to a cigarbox. Fig 2 is a fragmentary view, showing in detail, a front eleva tionof the display lid. Fig. 3 is a fragmentaryview, showing in detail, afront elevation of a slightly different form of the display lid. Fig. tis a fragmentary view, showing in detail, still another form of thedisplay lid. Fig. 5 is an enlarged fragmentary section, taken on theline .l-l of Fi 1. Fig. (3 is an enlarged fragmentary section, taken onthe line II-II of Fig. 2. Fig. 7 is an enlarged fragmentary section,taken on the line ILL-Ill of Fig. 3. Fi 8 is an enlarged fragmentarysection, taken on the line IlV-1V of Fig. if, and Fi 9 is a sectiontaken on the line V--V of Fi 1.

The removable display lid has a frame 10 adapted to be movably appliedupon the open top of preferably well-known forms of cigar boxes thebodies of which are made with side walls 11 and 1). 'of greater widthsthan the front wall 13 so that the upper edges of said side valls extendsome distance above the front wall. A space, as 14, is thereby providedabove the upper edge of the front wall 13, and between the projectingportions of ,he side walls 11 and 12, and in this space seated thehinged lid 15 of th box, when closed thereupon.

The frame 10 has side walls 16 and 17 and a front wall 18, each of whichis substantially the shape of an inverted L, as viewed in cross-secti0n,whereby a top flange 19 and a depending flange 20 are provided. Byproviding the side walls and the front wall of the frame of this form,the frame is susceptible of being made to fit over the top edges of theside walls and the front wall of the box in a manner so that thedepending llanges 20 of the frame will be in close movable engagementwith the walls of the box when the frame is closed thereon, and topermit the frame to be guided to a closed position upon the body of abox without contacting with the upper edges of its walls the free edgeof the depending flange 20 of the side walls and the front walls of theframe is flared outwardly, as at 21.

Serving to prevent the contents of the box being damaged by contact withair, or dust passing through the space 11; under the dc pending flaredflange 20 when the fraine is closed upon the box, upon the inner surfaceof said flange is provided a filler, as 9.2. The filler 22 may be in theform of a rod, as 23 Fig. 1, which is adapted to rest upon the top edgeof the front wall of the body of the box, and said rod is of sufficientlength to fill the space 1i between the side walls of the box. In Fig. 3is shown the filler as being formed by vertically slitting the dependingflange 20 of the front wall of the frame adjacent to its ends, andcurving, as at 24:, the part of the flange between the slits inwardly ofthe frame so as to fill the space 14 similarly to the rod 23. In Fig. 4is illustrated. the filler as being provided by longitudinally indentinginwardly a part, as 25, of the depending flange 20 so that the indentedportion will closely fill the space 14 of the body of the box when theframe is closed on the box. The filler 22 of the frame of the displaylid may also serve as a retainer for holding a plate of glass, or othertransparent material, as 26, in the frame 10. In forming the frame 10the filler, or retainer 22 is provided by being spaced from the topflange 19 of the front wall 18 of the frame so that when the plate isfit-ted in the frame the front edge thereof will be seated in the spacebetween the filler and said top flange. The transparent plate 26 maythen be fastened against accidental displacement in the frame 10 by abar, or strip, as 27, which is substantially U-shaped in cross section,and which is disposed in straddle arrangement on the rear edge of thetransparent plate, and then soldered, or otherwise secured. to the endsof the side walls of the frame which are opposite to the front wall.

In conjunction with the employment of the filler, or retainer 22, I mayuse a plurality of retainers, or prongs, as 28, or in some forms of thedisplay lid the filler 22 may be dispensed with and the prongs usedinstead. The retainers, or prongs 28 are preferably provided by slittingin a V-shape suitable portions of the depending flange 20 of one, ormore of the walls of the frame, and then bending the prongs inwardly ofthe frame so as to be spaced from the top flanges 19 of the wallsthereof. By arranging the transparent plate in the frame so as to restupon the prongs the plate will be secured therein for use in displayingthe contents of the box.

The frame 10 and its transparent plate may be applied to a cigar box soas to be swung to open, or closed positions upon the open top of thebody of the box by any suitable means, for instance by two sleeves, as29 and 30, which are preferably alike in formation. Each of the sleeves29 and 30 are substantially U-shaped, and said sleeves may be soldered,or otherwise held to either the bar 27, or to the ends of the side walls16 and 17 which are opposite to the front Wall 18 of the frame 10-. Thesleeves 29 and 30 are sufficiently spaced apart to permit the side edgesof the lid 15 of the box to be guided therein when the display lid ispositioned at the top of the lid of the box, and is then directeddownwardly to the lower part thereof. The display lid will thereby bearranged upon the open top of the body of the box for being swung toopen, or closed positions when the lid of the box is manually moved inalternate directions lmckwardly, or forwardly with relation to the bodyof the box.

in the foregoing description, I have embodied the preferred form of myinvention, but I do not wish to be understood as limiting myselfthereto, as I am aware that modi tications may be made therein withoutdeparting from the principle, or sacrificing any of the advantages ofthis invention, therefore I reserve to myself the right to make suchchanges as fairly fall within the scope of the appended claims.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secureby Letters Patent i v 1.. In a display lid for a box provided with ahinged lid. and a recess in the upper edge of the front wall and therear wall of the box, the combination of a rectangular frame havingthree closed sides and an open. rear side, the closed sides of saidframe comprising a plate adapted to rest upon the top of the box, withan integral substantially Sshaped flange depending from said plate, andthe upper recess thereof serving as a groove for reception of a transparent plate, and the lower curved portion of said flange serving as aguide whereby the frame may be freely directed downwardly over the edgeof the box, and the rear or fourth side of said frame comprising a platesubstantially the same as the top plate of the closed sides, said framehaving two upwardly directed channeled members adapted to detachably andslidingly engage the side edges of the lid of the box, whereby thedisplay lid may be swung to an open or closed position on the box whenthe box is swung accordingly.

2. In a display lid for a box provided with a hinged lid and a recess inits upper edge of the front wall and the rear wall, the combination of arectangular frame ada pted to rest upon the top edge of the walls of thebox, said frame comprising a flat plate and having upon its front sideand on its two end sides a depending flange substantially S-shaped incross section the upper curved part thereof serving as a groove forsupporting the transparent plate within the frame, and the lower curvedpart thereof serving as a guide for the frame when directed downwardlyover the top edge of the box, with a filler adapted to close the recessin the upper edge of the front wall of the box, and a plurality ofprongs adapted for clamping the transparent plate whereby it may besecured within the frame and means for removably securing the displaylid to the lid of the box whereby the display lid may be swung to anopen or closed position as the lid of the box is moved accordingly.

3. In a display lid for a box, having a recess in the top edge of one ofits walls and provided with a hinged lid; the combination of a frameadapted to retain a trans parent plate, and rest upon the top of the boxso as to close the same, said frame comprising a rectangular frame, andhaving a flat plate adapted to rest upon the top of the edges of thetransparent plate, a depending flange on each of the two end sides ofsaid :frame adapted to engage the ends of the transparent plate, each ofsaid flanges having a plurality of prongs adapted to be bent upwardlyand inwardly so as to clamp and retain the ends of the trans parentplate in position within the said frame, and a depending flangesubstantially S-shaped in cross section, integrally formed upon thefront side of the frame, the upper curved part serving as a grooveforretaining the front edge of the transparent plate, and the lower groovedpart serving as a guide for directing the frame over the edge of the boxwhen it is applied thereto, with a filler adapted to fill the recess inthe top edge of the front wall of the box, said filler being providedupon the inner surface of said S-shaped flange, and means for removablvsecuring the frame to the lid of the box whereby the display lid may beswung to an open or closed position when the lid is moved accordingly.

-l-. In a display lid for a box having a recess in the upper edge of thefront wall thereof, the combination of a frame adapt-- ed to retaintherein a transparent plate, said frame having a flat top plateextending on the four sides of the transparent plate, two end flangesdepending downwardly from the ends of the frame, and adapted to retain atransparent plate, and an integrally formed depending flange on thefront of the frame, said front flange being substantially S-shaped incross section, the upper and inverse curve of the flange serving as agroove for retaining the front edge of the transparent plate, and thelower and obversely curved portion of the flange serving as a guidewhereby the said flange is directed over the edge of the box when moveddownwardly thereon, with a filler adapted to fill the recess in theupper edge of the front wall. of the box, substantially as shown anddescribed.

In a display lid for a box provided with a hinged lid. and a recess inthe upper edge of its front wall, said display lid having a rectangularframe formed with three closed sides and an open rear side, the closedsides of said frame comprising a plate adapted to rest upon the top ofthe box, with an integral substantially S-shaped flange dependingtherefrom, the upper reeess thereof serving as a groove for reception ofa transparent plate, and the lower curved portion of said flange servingas a guide whereby the frame may be freely directed downwardly over theedge of the box, and said frame having two upwardly ex tending channeledmembers adapted to detachably and slidingly engage the side edges of thelid of the box, whereby the display lid may be swung to an open orclosed position on the box when the box is swung accordingly, ineon'ibination with a liller on the inner surface of the S-shaped flange,and serving to close the recess in the upper edge of the front wall ofthe box when the display lid is closed upon the box, whereby dust or thelike may be prevented from entering the box through said recess of thefront wall thereof.

6. In a display lid for a box provided with a hinged lid and a recess inthe upper edge of its front wall, said display lid having a frame inwhich is mounted a transparent plate, and the frame having a dependingflange on its front edge for being guided over the front wall of the boxand over its recess, in combination with a metal rod on the innersurface of the depending flange, and serving to close the recess in theupper edge of the front wall of the box when the display lid is closedupon the box, whereby dust or the like may be prevented from enteringthe box through said recess of the front wall thereof.

This specification signed and witnessed this thirty first day of July A.l). 19.13.

PHILIP A. BECKER.

\Vitnesses Ron'r. B. Anno'r'r, M. DnnMonY.

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